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Book collection includes bestsellers, fiction and non-fiction for a wide variety of research and recreational purposes as well as large-print books, audiobooks, music, DVDs and videos, magazines, language kits, adult literacy materials, talking books for the visually and/or physically challenged and
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which started working on the project as early as 1911. The library was originally opened in the old City Hall and was destroyed by fire on
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Auction was the Moncton Public Library's main fundraising event from 2007 to 2010. Taking place in October the art auction was an opportunity to raise funds for improvement of library collections, but also offered "artists across Atlantic Canada the opportunity to get
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a large and important collection of works by and about Frye were donated to the library by the
American professor and renowned Frye scholar, Robert D. Denham.
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Site of new Times and Transcript building has much historic interest. The Times and Transcript. March 22, 1960
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